iPhone 3.1 Bugs: Got Random Freeze or Shut Down?
Post one bug, and everyone demands you post another even more frustrating one. Our bad, should have had this up already. Seems iPhone 3.1 users, mostly iPhone 3G users from what we can make out, are experiencing random freezes and complete shutdowns of their iPhones, and nothing, not reboots, not restores are fixing it.
TiPb did hear a few accounts of freezes during the 3.1 beta on all versions of the iPhone, but that’s the point of betas — to identify and fix bugs before the software goes primetime.
Seemingly random, intermittent bugs, however, can be some of the toughest to figure out, especially for users, so if you’re suffering from randomly freezing or shutting-down iPhones, let us know which device, and any pertinent details like clean 3.1 install, restore from backup, etc. and if you’ve stumbled onto any fixes of the more-than-temporary variety, please do share.
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this has happened to me several times over the last week or so. hoping for a fix soon.
My iphone was randomly shutting off, it was a 3GS, it would work after a full charge for about an hour, and then the games began, if it works for a while after a full charge, and then starts doing it, you most likely have a battery issue. Replace your battery through iFixit.com for 19 Dollars. Solved all my frustrations, Enjoy your day. Also noticed mine would freeze, then the screen would slowly fade out, also the sign of a battery issue, not an overheating or programming issue.
Been experiencing this since 3.1 also. Went to Apple store today and they had me do a restore and clean renew. Still having the same issue.
Yeah this has happened to me quite a bit since I upgraded to 3.1 version. I have an iphone 3G.
This is happening about three times a day now at random. On the last freeze my phone beeped with new mail while in standby but I could not wake it up. I then called my phone from a land line and it it would just ring on the receavrr but no response from the iPhone. I called apple this morning and they toldme to restore which I have alreAdy done. Speaking with apple so far they have not reconized this as a bug
I have the 3G. Upon upgrade to OS 3.1 battery life (which was never great) took a huf=ge turn for the worse. You could almost watch the indicator go down. Recharging really did not work. In fact the phone got hot during the process.
I tried a backup and reset to factory via iTunes. Then I restored the backup. Same problem.
So, I restored to factory and reinstalled all 120 apps by hand. No more battery issues. In fact, battery life was never this good…unless it is hunting for 3G si signal…then it rapidly goes down.
Today I experienced a totally random shut down while attempting to answer a call. Thought it had bricked. 10 minutes later I was able to restart it and it acted like nothing was wrong. That NEVER happened before 3.1.
At any rate, that’s my experience. Would love to hear yours.
The only bug I’m experiencing on 3.1 is that I can’t install it! I’ve tried every troubleshooting tip imaginable, but I get errors no matter what(different error numbers each time).
Safari shutdown several times while I was browsing deviantart.com for images of the warden from Superjail! Boom! closed all pages including this one.
I have the iPhone 3G. Got random shutdowns too. One experience is when I leave a third party app running and the phone went to sleep/standby mode, and stayed stuck. The only way to wake the phone up is do the complete reboot. Found is also happening while you are switching to another home screen and in the middle of the transition, pressing the sleep/wake button will make the phone stuck in sleep mode.
I have been experiencing freezes and crashes ever since upgrading to the 3.1 OS. Usually my crashes start when I lock my phone or when I got a text or email and wa not able to read it before my phone locks itself. Those are my concerns. At first I thought it was my phone, it’s somewhat of a relief to know it’s the OS hopefully they can fix it.
I have an iPhone 3g…about four days after installing 3.1 I went to plug my phone into charge for the night and the screen went black. I couldn’t wake it up or nothing. About five minutes later I was able to restart the phone. Hasn’t happened since then. As a precaution I did a restore on it today and all seems fine. Battery life does seem like it is draining a little faster than 3.0 though. With 3.0 I was randomly losing signal in my home which always has full bars NEVER happened prior to update. This problem seems to have been fixed along with safaris speed. Before it had slowed down to nothing now it is speedy.
Had one random shutdown two days ago. Running 3.1 on a 3G. Nothing since then. Hopefully that was it…but I doubt it. Haven’t noticed a decrease in battery life…
My battery life went from bad to awful after 3.1….so I’m not alone?
Same problem here, updated to 3.1 in my 3G, freezes randomly, when it freezes, the iphone gets hot, that’s how I note it’s stuck in sleep mode, no incoming calls, just have to reboot. I restored it about 7 or 8 times in DFU, factory defaults, same problem. Before the upgrade, battery was not a real problem, after upgrade, it goes away faster, have to recharge daily. I’m not sure but I noted when the iphone is charging, it doesn’t get stuck. Hope we have a fix soon.
Ipod touch is havint the same problem?
I can’t take screen shots anymore. : / iPhone 3GS 32 GB.
First freezing was in the first night after the update. Roughly five hours after intall. After that i’ve have had more than two incidents a day. Hardware is 3G 16GB model. My calender, contacts and mail is synced with google. I’m also having mobile.me sync. Some apps have push on. I’ve have had couple incident when third party app running before sleep. There is at least one incident where the incoming call started the incident. My strong believe is that this annoying thing happens when the device is in sleep mode and something happens that would require display to wake to show notifycation or something else. Because it is only 3G issue it might have something to do with lesser memory. In xcode i do not see any crash reports.
I’ve been noticing this happening ever since I updated to 3.1 on my iPhone 3G. I didn’t know anyone else was experiencing the same thing. I hope Apple owns up and fixes this.
And it seems that I can not get it to come back on unless I hold the power and home button until it turns on.
I have a 3Gs and haven’t experienced a single hangup yet. I absolutely love this thing … Night and day difference over my 3G when it is loaded with stuff. 3.1 update also seems to improve battery life when full time wifi and Bluetooth are used.
Oh … And I just took a screenshot with my 3Gs. Works like normal.
I have 3GS 32G after the 3.1 upgrade my battery life went from bad to terrible. I did a full factory restore and have turned off push and it seems to be okay now but I did read about a lot of people having battery issues.
my phone shut own and i cant restore it
With my iPhone 3gs 3.1 voicemail doesn’t work is anybody else having problems with there Voicmail help please
Yup had to plug into iTunes to restore thanks apple
Just had a random shutdown tonight after updating last night. Really freaked me out. Took about 5 min for the phone to come back on and respond to anything. Glad others are having issues and not just me.
Yeah, I had my 3GS reboot itself today when going from camera zoom to the apple camera. It froze on the shutter, then when I pressed home, it rebooted.
I had 3 random crashes/freezes within 15 mins of each other. Using iPhone 3G(S). Had to do a reboot
I have had this issue also. It seems to happen when i toggle the mute/sound switch. The thing just turns black, and will not turn on for a min or so.
No problems here
I had one random shutdown but my recurring intermittent problem is the phone being useless for incoming or outgoing calls. Even with full bars, it doesn’t ring at all when receiving calls and you can’t hear ringing or anything calling out, even though it says it’s calling. This happens for about five to ten minutes and then it’s fine again.
Yep, random shut-downs. Random times too! iPhone 3G, updated to 3.1 via the usual method. Requires holding the home and on/off button for a while to turn it back on. Mind you I haven’t tried just pressing the power button – it’s only happened twice. I have one other bug and not sure if it’s related to 3.1 – 3G appears to be available but I can’t get internet access unless I go to airplane mode and back. Might just be the carrier though (Voda AU)
My 3G has shut down, (they are calling this a Coma over on the apple discussions board) at least 5 times since 3.1 was loaded.
No battery problems.
Only way to recover is hold down the sleep button for a long time (you have to guess, nothing will show on the screen, then the home button for another long time. Rinse, repeat, until Apple shows.
Next time you plug into itunes you will have another crash report on your computer.
I am getting a total shutdown once or twice a day. Needs a hard reset to reboot the phone. Details: UK user on O2 with iPhone 3G
So glad it’s not just me. Have 3G version and yesterday phone wouldn’t wake up from standby – just thought battery was flat. Tried hard reset and so on. Eventually rebooted. Strange thing is – plugged it into mac – iphoto responded but the display was still blank. Terrified that the screen had come to end of life – and my warranty has just finished. Almost made me think of conspiracy. If it’s a bug – I reckon it’s something to do with genius – it’s new and who tested it?????
I have a 3GS. Nothing like that happened, but camera roll shows 9 pictures, even when there’s nothing there. When tehre is, it adds 9 “ghost” pictures to the count…:-(
i took my 3g (that was having random shutdowns after 3.1 update) to the apple store and they replaced my phone with a new one….dont think they know whats going on….new 3g running 3.1 hasnt done it yet
same prob as jonathon on comment 17 as well as some others… got a 3g iphone and it shuts off randomly (usually now more than once a day) and I have to wait 5/10 then after a lot of fiddling trying with holding down buttons for long times and all it turns back on again. totally irking me and really hoping a fix comes soon.
I am having baseband crashes/reports sent from iTunes, I would first notice by my texts not going through… A reboot fixed it, but annoying. Reverted to 3.0.1, and still get baseband issues but the response of my 3g is alot better overall.
Im having the same problem. I caught it happening while my phone was closing and i had text still open. 2 times today and once yesterday
Using iPhone 3G… Upgraded to 3.1 one problem.. It freeze alot. And turns back ok.. Its an on-off thing. Hm. Another thing, sometime i could even online for the fact that i service provider signal is DAMM full.. Tried reboot it.. Same thing.. Is this also related to the bug??
My 3GS didn’t have issues prior to the 3.1 update, and hasn’t had any since. I have noticed the battery life improved, especially in standby mode.
I wonder how many of those posting issues here have previously, or currently, jailbroken their devices? I know several others with 3GS’s and 3G’s — no one has experienced any issued being claimed in the comments here.
@Statman:
Yeah, me too. My windows machine also saw the device, which I how I knew ti was still working, not powered. off.
And I’ve had the “Slide to unlock” slider refuse to move a couple times, and if I sleep the phone after it refuses, it will almost always go into the black screen coma.
There are over 38 thousand hits and 500 posts about this on Apple’s site, but as usual, not a word from Apple.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2152619&tstart=0
Smooth sailing so far. Did a clean restore to 3.1 without any backup (whats the point anyway? Everything’s synced to my Mac, all that gets lost are some saved games and a few texts). Seems smoother (esp. app opening), even though battery drains slightly quicker.
But so far, no complaints. Iphone 3g 8 gb, czech vodafone.
@Benji:
From the Apple thread I posted above (#41):
Most users seeing this are 3G, with a few 3GS. Most, like myself, claim to have never jailbroken. Most claim a normal install of the upgrade. Many said they tried every trick, like uninstalling all apps, restoring as a new phone, and nothing helped.
I hear 3.1.1 calling….
My 2G was experiencing random shut-offs after 3.1 and the battery stopped indicating the correct level. It just stayed at 100% on the indicator, regardless of the actual battery level. I bought a 3Gs shortly thereafter and ran 3.1 on it.
No freezing or crashing on the 3Gs however both phones experience glitches with the iPod controls when viewing video. Once video has started playback, the touchscreen stops functioning until the video is through. The only way to stop a video before playback has finished is to press the home key. This is an intermittent glitch, most notably when using the You Tube app.
YES! Oh my gosh this problem is so infuriating! It started happening minutes after doing the 3.1 install on release day. I figured it must have been a bad install so I wiped it again and did a second erase and install (no restore, I set it up as a new phone).
That did not solve the problem, I have tried restoring to a backup, restoring with no backup, putting the phone in DFU mode first then restoring, putting the phone in recovery mode then restoring, you name it. I’ve tried it.
It has been happening every day since I installed 3.1, at random times, it is usually 2-3 times per day, but last Sunday it happened SEVEN times to me. I was about ready to throw the phone on the ground and smash it. I called Applecare to see if they would replace the phone, but they told me I’d have to pay the $199 price because I’m out of warranty.
Please Apple, please, please, please fix this problem.
Aside from this stupid issue I have no serious complaints about 3.1, things seem to run quicker for me, and my battery life IS noticeably better than 3.0 or 3.0.1, reception seems no different, but other than that, things are positive.
But ugh. What a nightmare this has been!
iPhone 3G 16GB / AT&T – California
32gb 3GS here. Upgraded to 3.1 last week, had my first crash last night. Crashed when exiting an app and then failed to reboot. Got stuck on the apple logo boot screen. Took about 10 minutes to EVENTUALLY get back to the home screen. Was slightly worried that it was bricked. :-S
this is why we should have the option to downgrade to 3.0 if their are issues…
I was getting 2 or 2 lockups a day requiring a hard reset each time. I have tried restoring from a backup and recovering the iPhone (3G) and setting up again.
I have turned off notifications and have only had 2 lockups since – hoping for a fix soom
My iPhone 3G freezes alot more since OS 3.1 I find it mainly happens using the iPod function of it, specially when I use genius.
I have the same problem with my 3G, it has happened 4 or 5 times so far. My wife has the 3GS upgraded to 3.1 right after I did my phone and no problems at all. I haven’t figured out what causes the issue yet and I’m considering a restore or possibly a full restore by setting it up as a new phone when I have the time.
me too 1 day after upgrading to 3.1
I have an iPhone 3G – 3 freezes with 3.1. All when phone in standby/lock. All seem to be with apps open either 3rd party or apple.
Had to reset to get phone working each time.
Phone is not jail broken.
iPhone 3G – OS 3.1 Yep, my phone goes into a ‘coma’ a few times a day now. I’ve figured out if I just let it be for 10 minutes it’ll eventually wake up. For a quick fix though, I have to do a hard restart. Apple fix this. Asap. It’s obviously a problem, and I’m somewhat relieved to see others are experiencing it as well.
same here… 3G 8gb never did a jailbreak… since 3.1 random freezes at least a couple of times a day.. with hard restart the only solution.. plus the “slide to unlock” a lot of times is really really slow (a couple of seconds delay after I slide it) which is really terrible when I have to answer a phone call… also, sometimes will not run any apps (third-party at least) – it opens the app for a second and closes.. I guess it’s a memory thing.. but then, 5min later for example (without restart) it opens all apps normally..
come on apple, this is serious now! 3.1.1 ASAP!
Mayyybe the new OS is soooooo advanced that it’s become self aware and needs to take a nap every now and then?
What’s that? You want t……
Just buy a Palm Pre instead less problems and more regular updates. Also does tie you in to a fruit cake of a company who think they know everything
I haven’t had any shutdowns, but my 3GS is lagging and locking up pretty frequently! Ive also got the ‘smart playlist’ bug pretty badly, which is very annoying.
Beta3 was extremely buggy, but Apple have somehow managed to not fix the beta bugs – but introduce more!!!
perhaps the beta leaks (on forums such as this…lol), have made Apple a bit nervous; and as a result are seeding less betas to developers, and that’s leading to bugs getting under-reported!
Very interesting responses, I used to have very similar issues with my iPhone (3G 16GB) even before OS 3.1. It all started when I upgraded to 3.0. You name it I had it, from frozen lock screens, jerky animations and lag to extremely bad battery life (I had to charge the phone twice a day for gooness sake!).
From what I can tell, the whole root of the issue is MEMORY. OS 3.0 and above is simply to big for the iPhone 3G’s hardware to handle, their just simply isn’t enough RAM available for it to cope with push notifications, cut, copy, paste, Genius Mix and all the other features introduced since 3.0. If you have any memory monitoring apps running on your 3g just take a look at the apps running and you’ll notice just how little memory you have available.
The size of the OS has gotten larger and larger with every update and has become too big for the 3G handle. I believe that’s why Apple waited so long to introduce some of the features seen in 3.0 (they knew that an OS the size of 3.0 needed new hardware in order to get the best out of it). And that’s why I upgraded to the 3GS (32GB) because I anticipated issues like the ones mentioned above popping up. Haven’t experienced any issues since, my 3GS is as smooth as silk (well nearly) there seems to be a bug in Genius Mix, when I open the iPod app the artwork seems to be all over the place, with images spilling out of their grid positions. Also it seems to have slowed down the iPod app very slightly.
Other than that it’s all good. Really hope Apple fix these bugs soon, cause believe me, using an iPhone with bugs can be a nightmare.
@Roger,
My camera roll counter has also been wonky; it adds an extra “one” at all times. Thank God, it’s not just me; I’ve searched all over the Internet, and you’re the only other person I’ve seen that has this (haven’t read every message in this post yet). Other 3.1 bugs I’ve seen: the mail app won’t let you send e-mail from a hotmail account and do not…I REPEAT..Do NOT purposely do a soft or hard reset if you don’t have to (prior to 3.1, I always did a daily soft reset for optimum performance) — this will freeze/brick your phone. I’ve had to do ~5 (?) restores before I figured out that it’s 3.1 that’s causing all these problems.
BTW, I use a 3G
I should mention that I use a 3G as well. I agree with Dragonfly and I too have those same issues with the Genius mixes.
Here’s my whole story on this, I sent it to the TiPb’s contact message page thing:
Hello dear TiPb’s peeps!
Ok first of all I really wish I could send you guys pictures of what I’ve seen in iTunes 9 and iPhone 3.1 interaction, syncing and so on.
I too have bugs with the new 3.1 update: Podcasts not showing right, YouTube not loading rightly, the preview photo in the camera app not showing the latest photo and Genius mixes sometimes disappear or they wouldn’t display right. That’s about it for me with the iPhone. I haven’t had shut downs or freezes yet though.
iTunes 9 has these issues when trying to sync with the iPhone: When trying to sync my music with iTunes a warning shows up and it says, “The iPhone ‘XXXXXXX’ cannot be synced because there is not enough free space to hold all of the items in the elected playlist (5.58 GB required, 2.30 GB left)….” (Sometimes it says “not enough free space to hold the entire library.”) This is why a picture should be good lol. Anyway, the so called playlist is just 1 GB! But it says on the warning that I need 5.58 GB available! It doesn’t make sense. Even if I select the option to sync music> entire library it would do the same even if I have checked off 200 songs that I don’t to be synced.
I should say that the first time I did this I chose to Sync entire library but leave unchecked songs. And it worked! But now it gives me that nasty warning.
I have an iPhone 3G 16GB and it has completed frozen on me three times in the last three days. It was in sleep mode and when I try and wake it, it fails to respond to anythingl I have to do a hard reset. It’s only started doing this since I installed 3.1
My iPod 2g freezes when I try to exit out of tabs in safari sometimes
I am not having any problems remotely related to these, I’d be curious to know if the majority of these users are jailbroken.
My 3g is freezing up at least once a day. No real indication as to why. Standard reset works and rather than restarting the phone it picks up where it left. It seems to also enjoy calling people at random even though locked. The phone is definitely slower loading apps – especially noticeable pulling up text messages. Not sure about battery usage as I am never more than an hour or two from a charger.
@Gregory,
Not jailbroken and never have been. Having enough stability problems as it is right now…
Oh BTW I can’t sync podcasts anymore. It doesn’t want to add new podcasts. This whole iTunes 9 and iPhone 3.1 stuff is getting worst.
iPhone 3G – after 3.1 update it freezes intermittently. Also, iTunes 9 won’t sync some files because I need more space but I actually have much more free space than the files require.
Shut down three times when in standby and took 10 min to wake up . Poor battery life after 3.1 it was great with 3.0 .
I have a 3G 16G that has experienced the “coma” at least a dozen times since updating to 3.1. It has been jailbroken several times over several OS upgrades.
At first I only noticed the problem when I plugged it into my aux jack in the car (it was in sleep mode), but since then I’ve noticed it in other situations too, mostly related to sleep mode if I recall correctly.
I’ve also experienced stuttering video on a number of occasions.
Each time this has happened, the only thing that has fixed it was a forced reset (home button + power button).
It’s hard to say about the battery power since mine is near/plugged into a charger most of the day.
My 3G locked up on me 3 hours after upgrading to 3.1. It’s happened several times afterward. It may just be coincidence, but it seems to happen when I have used my bluetooth headset. I am able to get the iPhone working again by pressing both the home button and the one at the top of the iPhone for about 15-20 seconds. Then the Apple logo shows up on the screen. If I let it sit overnight after locking up, it appears to completely drain the battery,How about a fix Apple?
I have an iPhone 3G and the OS took a couple tries to install, but was working fine until yesterday. I thought I locked my phone but when I tried to turn it back on, it wouldn’t until three minutes later when I restarted it. This happened three times.
8 GB 3G iPhone and MacBook with iTunes 9.
2 days after installing 3.1 the phone went black. Did a reboot and it came back on, but I could not slide to unlock.
Called iPhone Tech Support and told him I saw all kinds of posts about the problem and he just kept telling me my software was corrupt. Duh. Also, he was telling me how to find my version of iTunes on a PC. Never even asked if I was using Mac or PC.
He wanted me to reset but I needed to take some screen shots to save my Todo list. He told me you couldn’t do screen shots on the iPhone.
Did a reset 2 times and so far no further problems. Thank goodness.
Have had total shutdown on iPhone Tuch 1st edition since update
For once I’m glad to be jailbroken and not able to upgrade to the exciting new OS right away. Sounds like this one is better to stay away from. I don’t care what features it has, if it could cause me to lose the use of my phone for five minutes at random times, that’s not a chance I can take.
Count me in. I’ve had my iPhone be completely unresponsive (blank screen) about 5 times since 3.1. I have to do a hard reset in order for it to work again. I haven’t bothered letting it sit to see if it ever comes back.
Also, this past Saturday I had the previously mentioned problem where I have full bars, but yet cannot make or receive any calls. My gf thought my phone was off or something, but it wasn’t. If my phone had rang when she called, maybe I wouldn’t have been late to class.
I have none of these problems on 3.0.1, and I’m jailbroken.
It’s ironic that jailbroken phones are far more stable than a factory phone, this started with 3.1, it has nothing to do with the jailbreak, this is Apple’s screw up.
YES!! My boyfriends 3G crashed just last night!!!!
I have a 3g 16GB no jailbreak or unlock & since update to 3.1 I’m having a world of problems… Shutting down at random times(I do think it’s worse when I leave a 3rd party app open & it goes to sleep), battery life has worsened, & I can’t seem to keep a signal. Where I normally have full 3g will just drop to 1 bar of Edge . To top it off at home it’ll just drop WiFi!( I know WiFi is good because laptop still works!)
After I upgraded from 3.0 to 3.1 my 3G locked up and presing the home key did not help. After 5 minutes it came back to life. Hope they get this fixed quick
I have a 3G running 3.1 and yes my phone shuts down at least 1 time a day. I have not found any fix for this. I have to hold down the home key and the lock buttom to restart the phone. Very annoying to say the least. We need a fix soon.
32gig iPhone 3GS Firmware 3.1 iTunes 9.0
Has crashed on me several times. A couple of my apps aren’t running well either.
Same problem here – thought I was the only one! iPhone 3G with 3.1 on O2. I can’t seem to find a pattern to the crash – I’ll try to unlock the phone and find that it’s switched itself off. Have to use the home + lock button to turn back on.
Upgraded to 3.1 and my phone is completely dead. I thought it was just mine until I read this thread. I cannot even get it to restart. If I get it to the home screen after two seconds the “Slide to Close” comes on and wants to shut it down. Basically cannot use it at all. I really hope they fix this quickly. Went to Genius Bar and they $199 for replacement. Not going to work.
16 GB 3G and yes I’ve gotten the random freeze and shutdown since going to 3.1. I was away on a business trip and the screen shutsdown in the middle of getting directions from google maps, while we were driving.
iPhone 3G Sometimes it will not come out of sleep mode. I have to do a force shutdown to get it back again. This happens at least once a day for me. Clean install of OS 3.1.
I am also experiencing a “frozen” slide to open bar. It seems to me that the overall OS is EXTREMELY slow. I hope Apple seeks to justify this; maybe upgrading 3g users to a new 3GS handset should be looked at.
I have a 3G and upgraded to the 3.1 software last Thursday. Since then, one thing that is driving me crazy that I haven’t seen anyone else experience is that my ipod won’t play all my songs. I play it on shuffle and it plays then it randomly refuses to play songs. There is no rhyme or reason to what songs it plays and doesn’t, it plays songs I’ve uploaded myself and songs I’ve purchased through itunes and vice versa. Is anyone else experiencing the ipod issue or have any suggestions as to how I can fix it? Other than this, at first every third party app would open and immediately close. I solved this problem by downloading updated versions of the apps. Ever since the upgrade, my phone randomly shuts down several times a day and only reacts to a manual reboot.
No problems here (16GB 3Gs). Also, battery life improved after the 3.1 upgrade.
Was on a call when a loud low bass fluttering sound started. Couldn’t hangup call. Had to reboot phone to stop the sound. Have also had 3 freezes since 3.1 update. Hope Apple is listening. iPhone 3G 3.1 16 gig.
I’m happy there’s no jailbreak for the 3GS yet. Sounds like upgrading to 3.1 is a mess and the bugs outnumber the gains. I bet the dev team or saurik will have an answer to all these bugs before Apple even acknowledges they exist. I would always be impatiently waiting for the new jailbreak to be released, but this time around I really don’t mind. 3.0 works great, so why break it now?
Same exact problem. I click Home button once in a while during the day to check what time it is, but sometimes nothing happens when clicked, at first I thought that it just froze, but when I realized that the only way to power it back on was to reset, I noticed that it started happening ever since I have downloaded 3.1 (the day it came out). Many people have the same issue, but I am pretty assured that a fix would be out soon.
@boseyjones seems to me like most people with problems are using a 3G. I’m on a 3Gs and couldn’t be happier with 3.1. No hangups or freezes.
3G Jailbroken 3.0.1 and quite happy, thank you very much.
I’m on a 3GS 16G and I’m not having any of these problems knock on wood. I really think it’s bigger than that. It more that Apple thought they could take their sweet time because these other smartphones weren’t creeping on them. Now they are. This is Apples only phone out and these other phone companies have the time to regroup and come out with something much faster. They have been doing phones much longer. I would rather them take their time and get these bugs out before putting out something that obviously has problems. Sorry 3G owners but it seems more problems with them than the 3GS. Its time for them to get this together it’s becoming ridiculous.
Updated to 3.1 the day it was available and I have had random shutdowns. Send a txt and lock the phone, press the home or power button and it won’t wake up. Re installed about 5 times and still the same problem. Very annoying, much of a pain to deal with. I’m glad TiPb has finaly put this issue up…
After installed iphone 3G to OS 3.1, my phone shut down randomly very often, 2 or 3 times a day. Battery life is also shorter than previous version. I missed serveral calls because the phone shut down. Apple tech support is useless when I called. Clean restore but does not help. Time to go for HTC touch pro 2 or pre
iPhone 3G, have had the phone shut down twice in 2 weeks since upgrading to 3.1 – hadn’t happened before. Wouldn’t come on plugged into wall power or PC via sync cable. Was eventually able to turn on. Both times it happened while in standby with about 50% battery. Overall, battery performance seems better for me with 3.1, though.
3g. Froze yesterday. Went to black screen while idle. Did hard reset. Ok so far. Hope they fix it fast. Need to have a phone I can depend upon. Might have to wake up my old BB8700. That had a 4 day battery life. Battery on this one is now 45% after 2 hours of use and 3 hours of stand by on 2g.
I upgraded my 8GB 3G the day the software came out. That night it went into coma mode shortly after it was done. I did the hard reset, it came back to life and a little while later it went out again. The solution for me so far has been to shut off wifi. I’ve done multiple tests and if wifi is on it will die unless it’s plugged in. Turning wifi off has fixed my stability issues and other than that 3.1 has been great. I prefer to use wifi when I can though, due to the flakiness of the AT&T 3G network. When 3G is working it is pretty good but I can often be at 5 bars of 3G signal and get no data service. That’s a network thing though, not a phone thing.